First Things RSS Feed - Romanus Cessario, O.P. https://www.firstthings.com/author/romanus-cessario-op en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:53:18 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/romanus-cessario-op 60 Non Possumus https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/02/non-possumus https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/02/non-possumus Thu, 01 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0500 Kidnapped by the Vatican? 
The Unpublished Memoirs of Edgardo Mortara
by vittorio messori
 ignatius, 190 pages, $17.95

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]]> Review of Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/02/review-of-arendt-augustine-and-the-new-beginning https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/02/review-of-arendt-augustine-and-the-new-beginning Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning:
The Action Theory and Moral Thought of Hannah Arendt in the Light of Her Dissertation on St. Augustine
by Stephan Kampowski
Eerdmans, 364 pages, $50 paper

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]]> Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/01/arendt-augustine-and-the-new-beginning https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/01/arendt-augustine-and-the-new-beginning Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 ARENDT, AUGUSTINE, AND THE NEW BEGINNING
by Stephan Kampowski
Eerdmans, 364 pages, $50 paper

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]]> Neo-Neo-Thomism https://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/05/400-neo-neo-thomism https://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/05/400-neo-neo-thomism Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Praeambula Fidei: Thomism and the God of the Philosophers
by Ralph McInerny
The Catholic University of America Press, 310 pages, $34.95

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]]> Thomas Aquinas: A Doctor for the Ages https://www.firstthings.com/article/1999/03/thomas-aquinas-a-doctor-for-the-ages https://www.firstthings.com/article/1999/03/thomas-aquinas-a-doctor-for-the-ages Mon, 01 Mar 1999 00:00:00 -0500 Why should a medieval Catholic priest merit a place among the most important figures of the second millennium? In part because more than seven centuries after his death his writings and teachings still seem fresh and—more importantly—true. His genius as a thinker and teacher has led thousands of scholars to carry on the intellectual projects and hand on the teachings in philosophy and theology of this thirteenth-century Neapolitan Dominican friar, whose physical size and taciturn spirit prompted some of his youthful confreres to label him the “Dumb Ox.” But you don’t have to be a Thomist to appreciate the genius of Thomas Aquinas (1224/5-1274). This Doctor communis has something to offer everyone who is serious about searching for the truth. He is a Doctor for the ages.

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]]> The Decline of Marriage https://www.firstthings.com/article/1998/12/the-decline-of-marriage https://www.firstthings.com/article/1998/12/the-decline-of-marriage Tue, 01 Dec 1998 00:00:00 -0500 From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition
by john witte, jr.
westminster/john knox, 315 pages, $24

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